Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA piggin (“an earthenware vessel, jar, crock”).
Uncertain. Perhaps from pig (“swine”), due to the shape. Compare also Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”). More at pig.
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- Cognate mentionpigenm · a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin
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